Lucia Rahilly

Welcome to McKinsey Talks Talent, featuring McKinsey leaders and talent experts, Brian Hancock and Brooke Weddle.

I'm Lucia Rahilly.

That's Susie Welch, NYU professor and author of the recently published book, Becoming You.

Ever wonder why your job feels harder than you think it should?

It might be because your cognitive wiring is a bad match for your role.

Susie joins us to share how to better understand ourselves and our teams so we can have less friction and more flow.

Susie Welch, welcome to McKeezy Talks Talent.

Thank you for having me.

I am so excited to meet you and to talk about your book, Becoming You, which I would urge folks to read, stat, and genuinely wish I had encountered when I was starting my career, lo, these many years passed.

Me too.

That's why I wrote it, because I needed it.

And Rick and Brian, happy new year.

Happy new year.

Great to see you as always.

Susie, let's start with some context.

Your book is about the work of identifying individual purpose and developing what you describe as relentless candor with ourselves about who we are and how we want to spend our time.

Before we get into it, I want to ask, we are arguably in the throes of a fundamental paradigm shift, given the advent of AI and its potential to upend the workplace as we know it.

And what is more, I just read that the latest consumer sentiment report in the U.S.

showed that Americans are experiencing high levels of

insecurity about the potential for job loss over the next five years.